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Photos July 31: Top images from around the world

A cyclist rides past an art installation showing an unexploded bomb, set near the Taras Shevchenko monument in the center of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, close to Poland's border on July 31, 2014. . (YURKO DYACHYSHYN/AFP/Getty Images)

The day’s best photos, as selected by editors at Postmedia News, are a stunning collection of the greatest images from around the world.

A Pakistan Navy helicopter evacuates a recovered body of a victim who drowned over Clifton beach in Karachi, Pakistan, Thursday, July 31, 2014. Scores of people drowned despite a ban on entering and bathing in the sea due to high tides, after thousands of people turned up on various beaches of Karachi to celebrate Muslims festive day of Eid. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan)

LONDON, ENGLAND – JULY 31: Elvish writing is seen on ‘Anduril’, a prop sword belonging to Aragorn, hero of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ movie trilogy on July 31, 2014 in London, England. The sword, belonging to actor Sir Christopher Lee and estimated at $150,000-250,000, forms part of Bonhams ‘There’s No Place Like Hollywood’ movie memorabilia auction taking place in New York on November 24, 2014. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

A Bonhams employee holds a prop wizard staff belonging to the character Saruman of ‘The Lord of the Rings’ movie trilogy on July 31, 2014 in London, England. The staff estimated at $100,000-150,000, forms part of Bonhams ‘There’s No Place Like Hollywood’ movie memorabilia auction taking place in New York on November 24, 2014. (Photo by Peter Macdiarmid/Getty Images)

A lantern with war image is seen on July 31, 2014 at the museum of Sepult culture in Kassel, Germany, during an exhibition dedicated to games in World War I. AFP PHOTO / DPA/ UWE ZUCCHI /GERMANY OUTUWE ZUCCHI/AFP/Getty Images)

A North Korean woman works at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile factory, Thursday, July 31, 2014, in Pyongyang, North Korea. This is the country’s largest textile factory with 8,500 workers, where eighty percent of them are women.(AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

North Korean women who work at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile factory spend their free time in a sauna at their dormitory in Pyongyang, North Korea, Thursday, July 31, 2014. This is the country’s largest textile factory with 8,500 workers, where 80 percent of them are women. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)

A young boy stands by an art installation showing an unexploded bomb, set near the Taras Shevchenko monument in the center of the western Ukrainian city of Lviv, close to Poland’s border on July 31, 2014. (YURKO DYACHYSHYN/AFP/Getty Images)

Displaced Palestinian Hajar Muharram, 5, sits in a classroom where the family of seven now live, at a U.N. school, in Beit Lahiya, northern Gaza Strip, Thursday, July 31, 2014. Israeli attacks in the strip continued Thursday, with witnesses saying that munitions struck the Omar Ibn al-Khatab mosque next to a U.N. school in the northern town of Beit Lahiya. (AP Photo/Lefteris Pitarakis)

Relatives wail after seeing the body of a victim after a massive landslide in Malin village in Pune district of western Maharashtra state, India, Thursday, July 31, 2014. Two days of torrential rains triggered the landslide early Wednesday, killing more than two dozen people and trapping more than 150, authorities said. (AP Photo/Rafiq Maqbool)

A North Korean woman works at the Kim Jong Suk Pyongyang textile factory, Thursday, July 31, 2014, in Pyongyang, North Korea. This is the country’s largest textile factory with 8,500 workers, where eighty percent of them are women. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E)